The Waiting List

Guess what! Guess what! Guess what!!!

Ok, I'll tell you.

Our paperwork has been reviewed and we are APPROVED to adopt from Azerbaijan and our names are on the waiting list!  

Woooooo Hoooooooooo!

I just love it when we make progress!

Sooooo now what?

We wait.  Isn't that always the answer?!?!  We could receive a referral any day now OR it could still be a few (several) months.   

But here is what I do know.  When it happens, it will happen FAST.  Suddenly we will be buying tickets to travel around the world to meet the little one we have all been praying for these three years.  Suddenly we will be putting life on hold for a week and a half to go and see and hold our little one!  Then we will come home to await our court date while frantically preparing our home for another kid!  Then back we will fly around the world for court, then a wait of a few weeks before finally getting our new child's visa and bringing him/her home.  AND BY THEN WE CAN ALL STOP SAYING HIM/HER!  That will be a glorious day.

We are a little excited around here. 

Just a little.

In other news, we are still doing the ornament fundraiser for another 15 days!  Out of 100 ornaments, 45 remain to be claimed.  Do you know---even perfect strangers have heard about our fundraiser and purchased ornaments!
If you are interested, let me know!  Here is an image of which ornaments are still up for grabs:

In case you missed out before, click here for the post about how the fundraiser works!

And finally--I want you all to know just how much your prayers and support mean to us.  Sometimes after three years of working through this process and hitting so many road blocks, we get tired of praying...tired of asking for the same things over and over, day after day, year after year.  When you remind us that you are praying, it encourages our hearts to know that even when we feel like we have run out of words, someone else is still standing in the gap for us.  Thank you so very much.

And now, these lovely pictures...